Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
HBS 2+2 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Harvard Business School 2+2 Program Essay Questions: The Harvard 2+2 application is online and the submission deadline is June 15, 2010. Harvard’s instructions and question are in black below; my comments and tips are in red: HBS will accept either the GMAT or the GRE from 2+2...
Melbourne Business School Visit
Everything is backwards. The seasons. The side of the road people drive on. The weather. I am down-under in Melbourne Australia for our son’s wedding this week. Last Friday I took a couple of hours off from site-seeing and wedding festivities to visit the Melbourne Business...
UNC Kenan Flagler 2010 MBA Essay Questions and Deadlines
UNC Kenan Flagler 2010 MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red. The essay questions are identical to last year’s, as are my comments, with the exception of one new question for essay 4. Some applicants seek the MBA as a career enhancing tool to accelerate advancement...
Duke Fuqua 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips
Duke Fuqua 2010 MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red. Three essay questions must be completed before submitting your application. Prepare your essays carefully. The Admissions Committee considers your responses to the following questions important in the selection process. Please respond fully and concisely using 1.5...
Admissions Uber-value: Leadership
I just finished reading The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel. This book’s 557 pages plus 100+pages of footnotes tells the story of admissions at these elite institutions since the beginning of the 20th century,...
Lincoln’s Leadership Among Rivals
The uber-attribute of admissions is leadership. Yes schools want to see intelligence and achievement, but when discussing personal qualities, leadership is at the top of every admissions professional’s Most Wanted List. You can read volumes about leaders and leadership — good and bad. I just finished...
Great Application Essay
I just read a great application essay/personal statement, and it’s not even written by an Accepted client. In fact, it’s not even written by an applicant. My daughter sent me a link to “Pay It Backwards: An Act Of Coffee Kindness” by Arthur Rosenfeld, a novelist,...
